News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-12-29

How They Got Water Crosses,
Etc, Etc.
In Michigan lumber camp the saw
cut in two large moocasin snake that
was embedded in the heart of n tree.
There was no opening ut either end OF
the log, and the lumbermen can account
for the snakes presence only upon the
hypothesis that it was taken up In the
sap when very young.
THERE is a little negro in Macon, Ga.
named Berry Bowden, aged about II
years. who has most remarkable
mouth. When fully open the distance
from the corner of tha-nnouth to the lobe
of the ear is less than half an inch. He
pu.S his fist in his mouth with ease and
can hold two eggs in the mouth without
any difficulty.
OrTo EITLE, q music teacher, of Lake
View, near Chicago, was declared insane
by Jury. When he was received at the
jail the entry ''Wife will give history of
the case" was made, but before the
case was called for hearing, Mrs. Elite
also became insane. Grief at her hus-
bands affection had turned her mind
and she WAS raying maniac. They
will be taken to the asylum. Elite Was
musical enthusiast, and hard study
and poverty drove him crazy.
THERE is a pungent little editorial in
the current number of the Century which
every voter in our municipalities ought
to read and take to heart. 1t is lesson
on municipal patriotism, and closes in
this way: Thousands of men have been
found ready and willing to die for the
Uaitcd States or even for the individual
State. Where are the men who would
die for Brooklyn, or Chicago, or San
Francisco Where, indeed. are the
men who would ice for them z
THE GREAT cottonwood trees IN the
sws.rn3es of rrennessee- contain VEINS Vi
clear, Sparkling water which tastes some
what like unsweetened soda water and
which spurts forth as if under gaseous
pressure when a vein is punctured. 1t
is said to be deliciously refres hing, and
hunters are in the habit of carrying
gimlets with which to pierce the veins
when they are thirsty. 1t is a point OF
honor with them to plug up the orifice
when their thirst is satisfied, so that the
next conner may not be disappointed.
THE choicest orange has dark tinge
upon its cuticle. as if half shined by an
itinerant boot black. But the ingen-
iOus DagO, being well aware of this fact,
SO art fuliy arranges that all of his Flor
ida oranges present this most desirable
dark-skinned appearance. Nor is this
all. After the Florida orange passes
away there takes its place as the chois-
est feature of the market the little
blood-red orange, sweet and juicy as q
hasheesh dream These the artists
manufacture by inserting in the neck of
a white orange a tiny glass syringe,
filed with sweetened analine dye. So
wags the world away.
SAMUEL C. YouNG filed a petition in
the Common Pleas Court of Ohio asking
to have his marriage declared void. He
says that on Nov. % last he made bal
loon ascension at Allegheny City, Pa,
intending 10 have a marriage in the bal
loon. The couple disappointed him,
and he and Miss Schwortzel agreed to
take part in Il mock marriage. A. NJ.
Mchenna acted rs preacher. Mr.. Young
has since discovered that McKenna is
a Justice of the Peace. He, therefore, /
seeks this method of relieving himself /
from any legal liability which might ac
crue from the marriage, which both
parties understood to be a mock cere-
mOny.
The owners of the bark Stamboul have
brOugh suit in the United States Dis
trict Court of San Francisco, against the
Pacific Steam-Whahng Company, own
er of the bark Wanderer, to recover /
81, 900 for the loss of whale. Plain |
tiffs' claim that they had harpooned the !
whale, which thereupon swan under a
field of ics aud came to the surface u
mile away, and that the crew of the
Whnderer then captured the same AMI
NAL, and, in order to give shadow OF
claim, substituted their own harpoOn
for that of the defendant 1t is claim
ed that for forty years it has been the
recognized custom that when crew had
once harpooned whale it was entitled
to the full ownership of the animal.
Ernest Schilling, the husband of Vic
toria Morosini Schilling, whose brief
stage career is well known, was met in
New York by q reporter. He was in
good health and looked stouter than
usual. A query from the reporter rs to
the whereabouts of his wife, who disap-
peared about a year ago, was met by
the reply and counter-query, 81 don't
know. Do You 2" Mr.. Schilling is
working cOntentedly as a painter on
Long Island, his wife's absence appar-
emily not troubling him in any way
whatever. He is not seeking a divorce,
and likes painting better than either
car-driving or hanging about tow, while
his wife was on the stage. Her flight
from him he attributes entirely to Sig
nor Morosini, the young lady's father.
In Arizona the wife of Gen. Crook is
spoken of as a public benefactOr. While
travelling across the Territory two wears
ago she threw handful of water-crcss-
es out of the car window and they fell
into a brook which the railroad fol-
lowed The current carried them into
q soft, marshy place, where they at once
took root and grew. Eventually
they spread along the banks of the
stream and reached out even to those of
that into which it empties. If rumor
be true, the water now grows in
luxurianca throughout the entire Ter
ritory and the settlers thereabouts have
learned to love it as well as an English
man does his breakfast chop. The fin
est specimen is called the Crook cress
in compliment to the lady who is re-
sponsible for its introduction.
A QUIET looking Montana millionaire
remarked from beneath his big hat in
New York hotel that the East seemed
to catc;. all the bogus British noblemen.
The mines and the mountains, said he,
get the genuine articles. The superin-
tendent of the Lexington mine at Butte,
NJ N, the yGlSer son 30, Of a.. noble .3le
shaft, and silk underclothing all the
year round. But there's not miner in
his force of $50 men who knows more
about the formation they are working,
or who could lie him in a rough-and-
tumble fight, Tor that matter SO no.
body ever ridicules his gloves. Under
him as an expert assayist there is
noble young Frenchman who has held
high official position in China. Cool,
honest fellows they are, who earn their
money and invest quite as much as they
spend, and they never mention their
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